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GATE. i No. 291,205. Pafented Jan. l, 1884.

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ISRAEL L. LANDIS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,205, dated January 1, 1824. Application filed May 15, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL L. LANDIs, a

.citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Thisinvention relates to certain'improvements in adjustable gates; and it has for its objects to provide for adjusting the gate vertically or obliquely, as may be desired.

In thedrawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my invention; and Fig. 2, a similar elevation of the opposite side of the gate, showing the same in an elevated position.

The letter A indicates the gate-post, which may be of the ordinary or any approved description, and which is provided with brackets B, having pintles C, over which are set the wings D, secured tothe rear upright, E, ofthe gate proper. The said upright is slotted 1ongitudinally for the passage of the screw-bolt, to be hereinafter mentioned.

The letter E indicates two vertical bars, between which the rear ends of the horizontal bars F of the gate are secured. Through these bars E is passed the screw-bolt G, which extends through the longitudinal slot in the upright E, and is clamped in place by means of a suitable nut. ,The outer ends of the horizontal bars of the gate are secured between the vertical bars l, as shown, and intermediately between the rear and front bars is located a vertical bar, L which is secured tothe horizontal bars above mentioned.

The letter Mindicates a diagonally-arranged bar, pivoted at its top to the Vupright E, the lower end being slotted for the passage of a bolt, N, which extends through the vert-ical bar L, and is provided with a crank-nut, N, by means of which it may be clamped, so as to hold the parts rigidly in any position to which they may be adjusted.

On the same day and date of the present application I made application for Letters Patent for improvements in gates, in which some of the same features were shown and described, and such featuresIdo not claim in the present application.

I am aware that gates have been hinged to slotted bars adjustably attached by bolts to gate-posts; but iu such no provision is made for elevating the gate-bars obliquely as well as vertically, which is accomplished by my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination. in a gate, of the vertical upright hinged to the gate-post and longitudinally slotted from side to side, the vertical bars secured to one side of the same by means of the lateral bolt and nut, and the oblique bar and fastening devices, the whole arranged to operate substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ISRAEL L. LANDIS.

Witnesses:

J. J. MCCARTHY, H. A. COLMAN. 

